The two most seriously made buildings on Mid-Beach, and they reward opposite instincts. The desk at Miami Dossier says which is which.
Written by the desk at Miami Dossier, which holds developer material on both buildings and represents neither, for readers who have narrowed it to these two. All comparisons.
If a buyer has worked out that they want oceanfront Mid-Beach at a low residence count, these are the two buildings. They are not variations on each other. One is the most disciplined hospitality operator in the world applied to a residence; the other is one of the most rigorous architecture practices applied to the same stretch of sand.
Both are oceanfront on Collins in Mid-Beach, both keep the residence count deliberately low, and both are aimed at buyers who have already ruled out South Beach and ruled out Sunny Isles.
Both are restrained rather than exuberant. Neither is trying to be the loudest building on the beach and buyers who want that will be happier elsewhere.
Aman has a resort component. That funds a service depth a residential budget cannot carry alone, and it brings the operator's standards into the building permanently. The Perigon is residence-only and its service is what roughly 73 households can fund between them.
The Perigon has OMA. That is not a decorative appointment. OMA's work is argumentative and the building's form follows a position rather than a style, with Tara Bernerd softening the interiors. Buyers either respond to that or they do not.
Aman's register is austere by design and buyers who wanted energy sometimes find it cold. That is not a flaw, it is the brand working correctly, and it is worth standing inside one before deciding.
Ask whether you want the building run for you or designed for you. Both are legitimate answers and almost nobody wants both equally.
Then ask whether you already know Aman. Buyers who have stayed at Aman properties tend to decide within minutes. Buyers who have not are usually deciding on a reputation rather than an experience, and a stay somewhere is worth more than a tour here.
Your situation is specific. Tell the desk in one message and we will say what applies to you, what does not, and who to speak with.
Your situation is specific. Tell the desk in one message and we will say what applies to you, what does not, and who to speak with.
Both carry a three-note series at Miami Dossier. What follows is the comparative read that the individual notes deliberately do not attempt.
Aman if the service register is the point and you have experienced it rather than read about it. The resort component is what makes that depth possible and it is the honest reason to pay for the building.
The Perigon if the architecture is the point, you want ocean exposure from every home at a low count, and you do not need a hotel operator after closing.
Most of the people who bring this comparison to the desk at Miami Dossier are not only choosing between buildings. They are moving to Miami from New York, California, London, Bogotá, Mexico City or São Paulo, or adding a Miami position to a portfolio held elsewhere, and the building question sits inside a larger one: how to buy new construction here, how to hold it, and what changes when you do.
The desk keeps short notes on the parts that come up every week: how buying preconstruction in Miami actually works, what a normal deposit schedule looks like, whether you need to be in Miami to buy, whether a foreign buyer can get a mortgage, what taxes a foreign buyer pays on a Miami condo, what happens if a developer delivers late, and the Florida state income tax question. For buyers arriving from a specific market there are notes for Bogotá, Mexico City and London.
Read the ones that apply, then bring the rest to the desk at Miami Dossier. It usually takes one conversation to see which of these fits, or whether neither does.
This page is general information for people considering Miami, written by a real estate desk, not by a law or accounting firm. Nothing here is legal, tax, immigration or investment advice, and it is not a substitute for advice on your own circumstances. Rules change, treaties differ by country, and the right answer for one family is the wrong answer for another.
Figures and building details are compiled from developer documents held by the desk at Miami Dossier and from public filings. They are approximate, subject to change, and anything material should be confirmed against the current developer release before you rely on it. Where the desk at Miami Dossier does not know something, the page says so.
Speak with your own attorney and CPA before you commit to anything. If you do not have one who works with international buyers in Florida, the desk is glad to recommend an attorney, a CPA or an adviser suited to your situation, and to sit in the first conversation so that nothing is lost in translation.
Structure, financing, currency, timing, the right building and the right line: the desk works through these questions with international buyers every week. What this page cannot do is know your position. Tell us the shape of it and we will say plainly which of these fits, which does not, and what we would want to see before anyone commits.